There is an X-Revision field in the cabal file, perhaps cabal-install
should display it more prominently ( is it even displayed at all right now?
)
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/happy-1.19.5/happy.cabal
Joachim Durchholz
Am 22.06.2017 um 18:14 schrieb Niklas Hambüchen:
So I would welcome if we could make use of the "Hackage revisions" feature only in the utmost necessary cases, or even better, never, and always make properly versioned releases, where a change to any file implies a bump of the version, so that one can clearly see if one is dealing with the unmodified upstream code or not.
I'd like to recommend the approach taken by Linux distros: If the package is modified vs. the original code, use a version numbering scheme that clearly indicates both the original version and a "packaging revision number". https://hackage.haskell.org/package/happy-1.19.5/revisions/ with two(!) updates should really be three revisions: happy-1.19.5 (original version uploaded by Simon) happy-1.19.5-hackage-1 (2015 update) happy-1.19.5-hackage-2 (2017 update)
The assumption here is that Simon will bump the version to happy-1.19.6 before uploading the fixed package. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.